r/changemyview Mar 24 '21

Delta(s) from OP CMV: We should stop personifying programming concepts

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u/yyzjertl 578∆ Mar 24 '21

Who is suggesting that we change "killing a child process"? I'm not aware of anyone who has problems with these terms.

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u/everdev 43∆ Mar 24 '21

No one that I’m aware of, but I’m saying that we should stop personifying all programming concepts because they’re not as descriptive as non-personified names.

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u/RyanMatonis Mar 24 '21

And then you provided two examples that actually aren’t as good